94 CHEILANTHES. 



Hab. Andes of Peru, John MacLean, Esq. — One of the most distinct of 

 .iny species of the genus, of a very dingy, dirty, dark brown color (in its dry 

 state), remarkable for the large size of the pinnules and their distant posi- 

 tion from each other on the rachis, and for the copious glandular hairs with 

 which the whold plant is clothed. I have not observed that any of the in- 

 volucres are confluent ; but allhough at first they are close-pressed to the 

 under-side of the frond, the sori eventually force them back and they form 

 a ragged edge to the pinnules and the lobes. I have never received this 

 Cheilanthes from any collector but Mr. MacLean. 



35. Ch. Mi/surensis, Wall. ; roots densely ca3spitose the 

 fibres very woolly, stipites slightly scaly below short 1 — 2 

 inches and as well as the main rachises deep glossy ebene- 

 ous rigid, frond a span or more long in outline narrow-ob- 

 long acute tapering below by the diminishing of the pinnae 

 glabrous membranaceous but firm bipinnate, lower pinnaj 

 very small all of them oblong-ovate sessile frequently oppo- 

 site pinnate below, the upper half pinnatifid, pinnules or seg- 

 ments linear-oblong plane (much incurved if dried without 

 pressure) toothed or lobato-pinnatifid, each tooth or lobe bear- 

 ing one or two subconfluent small whitish suborbicular sori. 

 (Tab. C. a.) Wall. Cat. n. 66. Ch. fragrans, Swarlz, Si/n. 

 Fil. p. 127 et 325, /. 3,/ 6, [not Polyp, fragrans, Linn. Mant. 

 ii. p. 307, which is Ch. fragrans of Wehh and Bert, and of 

 this work; nor Pol. fragrans, Linn. Sp. PI. p. 1550, which is 

 Aspidium fragrans, Sw. Lastrea, Pr.) Ch. Swartzii, Wehb 

 et Bert. Phytogr. Canar. p. 454 in note. Ch. opposita, 

 Kanlf. En. Fil. p. 211, [incorrect in the locahti/," Cape of 

 Good Hope''^). Asplenium Mysorense, Heyne, in Roth, Nov. 

 Sp. Ind. Or. p. 395 ? 



Hab. " One of the most common Ferns in the Madras Peninsula, found 

 among rocks and hills, at all heights, from 50 feet to 3,000 feet above the level 

 of the sea," Dr. Wight, in Herb. Wight. Prop: n. 28. Neura Ellia, Cey- 

 lon, 6,000 feet, Gardner. — We have shown, under Ch. fragrans of Webb et 

 Bert., that those botanists have settled the question respecting the iden- 

 tity of the plant of that name. It is quite clear that Swartz's Ch. fragrans 

 is of Indian origin, gathered by Konij;, probably in the Madras Peninsula, 

 and it is equally probable that Rotlicr's specimens (described by Kaul- 

 fuss) were gathered in India and not at the " Cape of Good Hope i* " We 

 have, what is far more satisfactory, Swartz's figure of his Indian Ch. fra- 

 grans, and, making allowance for its being the work of a Swedish artist 

 nearly half a century ago, it cannot but be commended as a faithful repre- 

 sentation of a small plant of Dr. Wallich's Ch. Mgsurensis. Even the mag- 

 nified figures, though caricatured, show the projecting lobes which bear the 

 sori, and which arc so remarkable in this species. Some of our copious 

 specimens are more than a foot long. All are distinguished by the black 

 rigid stipes and rachises, and by the distant lower pinna; diminishing al- 

 most to the base of the stipes into a mere scale. Plentiful as it is in the 



